DEUUUTERONOMY: Actually super important and mostly really good??

Vacation Bible School Podcast

Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The final book of the Torah, the one we NEVER talked about in church, actually ... kinda rules at times?
In the story, at the edge of Canaan, Moses reframes everything that's happened to this point, retconning the horrors of Numbers and synthesizing the Bible's competing God ideas into one coherent theology that more or less works for everyone on earth (except the despicable Jebusites).
Upgraded lore, now including IRON GHOST GIANTS (and way less murder).
Talmud rabbis vs. Oprah's collected life advice: who ya got?
You want some more weird penis rules? Say less.
God and Moses perform their finale duet, VeggieTales-style.
There are patriarchal parts that really suck, because this was written ~2,600 years ago by a guy with specific bad ideas, and we'll try to talk context.
But for the most part, this is the most coherent and best-written book of the Bible so far. It's also possibly just about the most historically important book in the entire Bible. Yep!
Thank you to scholar friends Brad Haggard, Mike Altman, and Jason Smith for taking a look at our notes. Any errors are the fault of Jason (host Jason, not Smith Jason) and nobody else.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Let's go to all right!
0:02.0	Let's go to everybody!
0:03.0	This, Exodus, Leviticus numbers, Duteronomy,
0:07.0	One, Deteronymy, Duteronomy,
0:10.0	One, Deuteronomy.
0:12.0	Hello, and welcome back to the Vacation Bible School podcast.
0:15.0	My name is Jason Kirk, joined as always by Emily Kirk.
0:18.0	Hi, how are you?
0:19.0	Hi, I'm good, thank you. How do you do?
0:21.1	I'm okay.
0:21.9	We are here today to discuss Deuteronomy.
0:25.0	That's right.
0:25.7	The best part of the song that plays at the beginning of this podcast.
0:29.9	Sing it along at home if you know it.
0:32.4	You probably don't know much about Deuteronomy, but you're going to learn a lot. What? Did you know a lot about Deuteronomy?
0:39.8	Never heard of it.
0:42.0	Basically, that sounds about it.
0:43.3	I knew of it in the song. That was about it.
0:45.5	Yeah, like we knew that Deuteron, there is a book called Deuteronomy.
0:48.6	Deuteronomy was basically never discussed unless there was a verse that struck a pastor as being about Jesus.
0:53.8	So like what we sort of
0:55.5	gathered about it as I think youngsters is, and even this is I think more than most people gather
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